Senior Software Engineer, Tokenization
About The Position
Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. The Tokenization team's mission is to bring both public and private equity to be tradable 24/7 on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) across the Robinhood Chain. This role operates at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial market infrastructure, and modern distributed systems, focusing on accessibility, security, and scalability. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build the core systems responsible for issuing, custody, and settling tokenized equities on-chain, ensuring they remain synchronized with traditional brokerage and ledger systems. You will lead technically complex projects from inception to completion, make critical architectural decisions for a foundational Robinhood initiative, and work in a domain where absolute correctness is paramount, as the systems handle real customer assets across multiple chains and jurisdictions. This role is based in either the Menlo Park, Toronto, or New York City offices, with a requirement for in-person attendance at least 3 days per week, as Robinhood believes in the power of in-person collaboration to drive progress and innovation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including a track record of delivering large-scale distributed systems in production
- Expertise in backend development with Go, Python, or Java, and deep familiarity with cloud-native architecture (Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, or equivalents)
- Strong instincts for correctness-critical systems - idempotency, reconciliation, and reasoning carefully about failure modes when money is at stake
- Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional projects, with the judgment to make tradeoffs and drive alignment
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your own projects
- Working knowledge of blockchain fundamentals - EVM, smart contracts, wallets, on-chain settlement - or a strong appetite to go deep quickly
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the backend services that mint, custody, and settle tokenized equities across leading blockchains, with correctness and auditability as hard requirements
- Own large, technically complex projects end to end - design, implementation, rollout, and operating what you ship in a 24/7 system
- Build the connective tissue between traditional market infrastructure (brokerage, ledgers, corporate actions) and on-chain systems, including smart contract integrations, chain indexers, and DEX trade flows
- Partner with product, compliance, legal, and platform teams to turn regulatory constraints into workable system design
- Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship
Benefits
- bonus opportunities
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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